Cape Floral Region Protected Areas

Cape Floral Region Protected Areas

A serial site – in Cape Province, South Africa – made up of eight protected areas, covering 553,000 ha, the Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas for plants in the world. It represents less than 0.5% of the area of Africa but is home to nearly 20% of the continent’s flora. The site displays outstanding ecological and biological processes associated with the Fynbos vegetation, which is unique to the Cape Floral Region. The outstanding diversity, density and endemism of the flora are among the highest worldwide. Unique plant reproductive strategies, adaptive to fire, patterns of seed dispersal by insects, as well as patterns of endemism and adaptive radiation found in the flora, are of outstanding value to science.

 South Africa

Western Cape Province, Eastern Cape Province

S34 10 0 E18 22 30

Date of Inscription: 2004

Criteria: (ix)(x)

Property : 553,000 ha 

Buffer zone: 1,315,000 ha

Ref: 1007rev

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Lorentz National Park

Brief Description

Lorentz National Park (2.35 million ha) is the largest protected area in South-East Asia. It is the only protected area in the world to incorporate a continuous, intact transect from snowcap to tropical marine environment, including extensive lowland wetlands. Located at the meeting-point of two colliding continental plates, the area has a complex geology with ongoing mountain formation as well as major sculpting by glaciation. The area also contains fossil sites which provide evidence of the evolution of life on New Guinea, a high level of endemism and the highest level of biodiversity in the region.

Indonesia

Province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya)

S4 45 0 E137 49 59.988

Date of Inscription: 1999

Criteria: (viii)(ix)(x)

Property : 2,350,000 ha

Ref: 955

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Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites

Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites

The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens - tombs from the 1st millennium BC constructed of large stone slabs. They form part of the Megalithic culture, found in many parts of the world, but nowhere in such a concentrated form.

Republic of Korea

Gochang-gun County, Jeollabuk-do Province; Hwasun-gun County, Jeollanam-do Province; Ganghwa-gun County, Incheon Metropolitan City

N34 58 0.012 E126 55 45.012

Date of Inscription: 2000

Criteria: (iii)

Property : 52 ha

Buffer zone: 315 ha

Ref: 977

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Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin

Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin

Built on an ancient site, the Kazan Kremlin dates from the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. It was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and became the Christian See of the Volga Land. The only surviving Tatar fortress in Russia and an important place of pilgrimage, the Kazan Kremlin consists of an outstanding group of historic buildings dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, integrating remains of earlier structures of the 10th to 16th centuries.

Russian Federation

City of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan

N55 47 28 E49 5 42

Date of Inscription: 2000

Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)

Property : 13 ha

Buffer zone: 115 ha

Ref: 980

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Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)

Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.

Poland

Oswiecim County, Lesser Poland (Malopolska) Voivodship (formerly Bielsko-Biala)

N50 2 20 E19 10 30

Date of Inscription: 1979

Criteria: (vi)

Property : 192 ha

Ref: 31

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Historic Centre of Puebla

Historic Centre of Puebla

Puebla, which was founded ex nihilo in 1531, is situated about 100 km east of Mexico City, at the foot of the Popocatepetl volcano. It has preserved its great religious structures such as the 16th–17th-century cathedral and fine buildings like the old archbishop's palace, as well as a host of houses with walls covered in tiles (azulejos). The new aesthetic concepts resulting from the fusion of European and American styles were adopted locally and are peculiar to the Baroque district of Puebla.

Mexico

Etat de Puebla, municipalites de Puebla, San Pedro Cholula et San Andres Cholula

N19 2 49.992 W98 12 29.988

Date of Inscription: 1987

Criteria: (ii)(iv)

Property : 690 ha

Ref: 416

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Brasilia

Brasilia

Brasilia, a capital created ex nihilo in the centre of the country in 1956, was a landmark in the history of town planning. Urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer intended that every element – from the layout of the residential and administrative districts (often compared to the shape of a bird in flight) to the symmetry of the buildings themselves – should be in harmony with the city’s overall design. The official buildings, in particular, are innovative and imaginative.

Brazil

Federal District

S15 46 59.988 W47 53 60

Date of Inscription: 1987

Criteria: (i)(iv)

Property : 11,269 ha

Ref: 445

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Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing

 

Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing

The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.

 China

10 km northwest of Beijing

N39 54 38 E116 8 28

Date of Inscription: 1998

Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)

Property : 297 ha 

Buffer zone: 5,595 ha

Ref: 880

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